WEBVTT - S1: E20 – Louisiana Love Triangle, Part 1 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.520 After a night of partying in New Orleans, an angry 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.000 friend lost control after what he heard. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:12.680 She did say that her husband forced her into having 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:13.560 sex with her. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.680 When it was all over, one man was dead and 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:18.200 another was in custody. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.600 There was a lot of alcohol it went on that night, 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.320 and we believe probably drugs as well. I believe that's 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.360 what led to the rage, which led to the shooting 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:28.680 death of our husband. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.920 But when witness statements didn't match up with the evidence, 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.680 investigators scrambled to understand what was true and what was not. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:42.280 And I just thought, this is not how I feel 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:43.599 like this went down. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.200 And the investigation exposed more than just murder. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.760 How they pulled this off is the one thing that 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.519 amazes me today. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.640 We're just outside of New Orleans for part one of 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.520 the Louisiana Love Triangle. I'm Sloane Glass and vis is 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.360 American Homicide. Just a note that this episode contained some 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:10.280 graphic content. Please take care while listening. On the other 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.920 side of Lake Pontatrain is the charming and quiet suburb 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:15.800 of Covington, Louisiana. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.960 Covent's the last bedroom community is close in your Orleans. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.640 So you've got the convenience of the city if you 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.360 need it with everything that goes with that. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.840 Doug Arrowood is a former detective with the Covington Police Department. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.560 You'll notice an accent. Detective Airwood was born in the UK, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.000 but moved to the States and lived here on and 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.600 off throughout his life. It's a unique background for a 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:38.560 local detective. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.920 It's a city where you have almost mentioned that you 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.119 see in magazines and see on TV and they make 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.800 you jaw drop. But you also have rapport areas of 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.840 town where people live in little shacks that you wouldn't 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.480 think chickens would want to live in. So it's got 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:52.520 everything from a to Z. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.559 As people grow up and out of the party atmosphere 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.720 of New Orleans nearby, Covington is a great place to 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.360 art and raise a family if. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.920 You want a quieter atmosphere, a slower pace of life, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.160 very friendly folks here about. It's a great place to live. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.600 You can spend any amount of time here. When you 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.000 bump into somebody that you've not met before, within five 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.000 or ten minutes, you've already got ties with them. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.400 That sort of camaraderie gives the city of Covington a 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.079 small town feel that. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.639 What's what makes it so interesting, Especially as a police officer. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.040 You've got that nature of everybody knows everybody, so it 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.480 is a pretty good chance when something happens, you know 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.440 who did that, that's all so and so, and you 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.480 know which way to start looking, which is helpful. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.520 On the morning of December eleventh, two thousand and four, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:46.239 Covington Police dispatcher Heather Jenkins was wrapping up after working 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:47.520 the overnight shift. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.280 We were getting off at six in the morning and 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.760 right at shift change, nine to one one phone rang. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.720 The report was that someone hanked a horn and that 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.559 this gentleman came outside and there were gunshots. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.119 The call came from a worried resident. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.240 We did not have a lot of crime in that subdivision. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.559 When we did, it would be things like a mailbox 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:18.600 got smashed or you know, loud noise complaints, that type 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:19.040 of crime. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.920 Within a minute, another call came in, and then another. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.520 We had seven regular lines into nine one one lines, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.480 and more calls started coming in that there were gun 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.280 shots and that someone actually was down and had been shot. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.560 With each phone call, more details emerged about the shooting. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.680 This neighbor could see that someone had been shot and 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.160 was laying in the driveway. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:47.240 That someone was Thomas Tally, who lived on Gratitude Drive 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.320 with his wife, Kendra, and their two year old son. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.280 There were other people calling to say that Kendra Tally 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.560 was outside yelling for help. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.120 And neighbors reported seen a gold colored Chevy truck flee 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.200 the scene. As Kendra cradled Thomas on the driveway. He 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.760 was bloodied and wounded, wearing only his pajamas. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.880 Kendra Tally was just basically there kind of freaking out. 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.560 Anyone would freak out. Imagine how difficult it was for 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.800 Kendra to hold her dying husband in her arms. And 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.520 that happened just as Covington police and emergency responders arrived 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:28.599 at the Tally's home. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.320 The Ambulance Service did arrive and try to save him, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.280 but they were not able. Mister Tally was deceased there 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:37.479 in the driveway. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.720 The only good news for the investigation was that Thomas's wife, Kendra, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.520 witnessed the whole ordeal. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.280 This poor woman has just watched her husband be gunned down. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.520 You know, how can we work this situation to get 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.480 this resolved. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.320 Here's Detective Doug Arrowood describing the scene. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.800 At that point in time. I believe there were four 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.839 of as detectives and once she got a case of 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.560 that magnitude, all hands on deck, everybody's coming out, so 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.880 we're all called out, and there had been a body 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.239 just laid out on the drive. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.400 Work next to Thomas's body. Detectives found shards of glass, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.440 some spent shell casinges, and of course a devastated Kendra. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.479 I recall her being obviously very upset, hugging her husband, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.000 saying keep breathing, stay with me, stay with me, and 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:28.480 wors to that effect. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.680 Kendra Tally was twenty four years old at the time. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.640 She was short and petite, with dark reddish hair. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.000 She was obviously a mess. She looked like she'd been 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.200 out for a couple of nights, which you could probably 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.280 say that somebody's been through something as traumatic as that, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.599 they're probably going to fold to pieces pretty quickly. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.599 The one good thing about Kendra Tally witnessing her husband 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.279 being shot was that she could tell the detectives what happened. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.440 Kendra said the shooter was no stranger, but rather a 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.560 good friend of her and her her husband, a man 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.360 named Tommy Row. Now it gets a little confusing here 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.440 because both The husband and the shooter have similar names, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.520 so keep in mind that Kendra's husband was Thomas Tally 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:12.920 and the shooter was. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.760 Tommy Row Tommy Roll. He'd been a friend of the family. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:18.760 They'd known each other quite some time. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.680 Tommy Roll lived about thirty miles north of Covington in 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.040 rural Buggaloosa. He had three children and was very close 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.200 with Kendra and Thomas. They spent a lot of time 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.000 together and they had known Tommy Row for years. Even 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.679 their children all played together. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.120 Tommy Roll had left the scene and gone to his 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.720 house as the. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.960 Police search for Tommy Row. Detectives questioned Kendra. She said 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.560 that she, Tommy Rowll and some other friends had been 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.679 out on Bourbon Street while her husband stayed home. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.840 Her husband that day had had oral surgery. He's at 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.840 home recovering. He just had both wisdom teeth out in 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.280 the bottom. For those that have had the wisdom teeth out, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.080 they know it takes a couple of days to recover 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.480 from that. And he was in some discomfort. He was 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:06.320 under medication. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.480 So what happened on Bourbon Street that caused Tommy Raw 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.880 to go to his friend's house and gun him down? 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.360 There was a lot of alcohol. It went on that night, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.800 and we believe, uh probably drugs as well. And because 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.920 of the drugs, I believe that's what led to the rage, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.680 which led to the shooting death of her husband, Thomas Telly. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.640 So here's what a devastated Kendra told detectives. Just after 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.360 the bars closed, Tommy Row went into a murderous rage 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.160 and took it out on her husband. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:40.920 He was going to take care of businesses. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.480 What Kendra said, the Covington PD turned their attention to 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.000 finding the shooter. It was a pretty simple case, but 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.160 Tommy Roll was long gone by then. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.000 He got on a struck and he left. So once 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.600 we kind of established that we had the victim's wife 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.400 here and we had that locked down with them, went 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.080 to try and find the repartrator. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.200 The police believe Tommy Row was hiding out at his 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.680 home in a wooded area of Bugaloosa about half an 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.320 hour away. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:13.440 He was armed, probably dangerous after what we discovered, so 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.760 we wanted to take all precautions. We've got the Sheriff's 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.680 office involved, We've got the SWAT team involved. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.520 With Kendra's help, more than a dozen law enforcement officers 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.920 spent that early Saturday morning on a manhunt for an 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.160 out of control killer. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.080 If you're not careful, you can be led in that 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.079 wrong direction. You need to take it one step at 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.520 a time and make sure that you're going in the 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.079 right direction. You know what's happening that I felt was 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.559 going to be the most pivotal moment of the case. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.320 As the sun rose and Covington Tommy Raw showed up 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.320 at his best friend's house and opened fire on him. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.360 This happened two weeks exactly to the day before Christmas Day. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.280 Mark Kelly woke up to learn his younger brother Thomas 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.800 was gone. Here's Mark. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.640 Kendro's sister in law started calling me about six in 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.160 the morning and she said Thomas had been shot. He 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.240 was shot in the driveway. She said, I think he's dead. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.760 I'm pretty sure he's dead. I think he's dead. And 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.679 you just imagine him barefoot and pajamas laying on his 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:34.400 concrete driveway with blood around him. Yeah, that does a 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.080 number on you, and so I have to I just 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.440 shut everything off. I shut my phone off, I shut 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.320 the TV, the radio off. I just I just needed 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.559 to be alone at that time. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.360 As you can imagine, it was an awful day for Mark. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.280 He was my younger brother by a little over five years. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.680 When they were kids, Mark said Thomas was the typical 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.640 younger brother, always followed him around. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.680 Me and Thomas had a lot of similar interests. We 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.520 tinkered a lot with stuff. We weren't into the whole 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.200 hunting fishing thing. We did like to trek through the 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:16.560 woods and just goof off and play around Thomas. He 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.920 was on on a roll in school for several years. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.079 Very sweet kid. Same with Kendra. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.760 Kendra and Thomas met a few years earlier while working 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.440 at the local pizza hut. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.760 He was a delivery person, she worked inside, and sparks 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.679 happened and they went from there. He called me one 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.120 time said, remember the girl, Kendra said, now she wants 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.680 to go out with me. So I was happy for 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.880 him because I knew the kind of person. She was 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.319 very bubbly and energetic and happy, and she was very 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.560 pleasant to be around, and I think that's what Thomas 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:53.280 liked in her. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.000 The two eventually got married and had a. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.320 Baby boy, and then everything after that fell in the place. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.480 Most recently, Thomas worked as a courier. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:09.720 Thomas was working two jobs, sometimes another job after that 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.000 to support his family. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.880 And becoming a husband, father, and provider were rules that 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.120 Thomas embraced. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.360 He'd always wanted that. He was kind of like me, 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:22.880 settled down type. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.400 Although Thomas was six years older than Kendra, it didn't 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:27.200 make a difference. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.880 At first. I didn't think she was motherhood material, but 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:32.880 she was very good. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.000 It's understandable given that Kendra went from a girl barely 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.559 out of her teens to mother and wife. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.439 She still had that in her, the party girl type, 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.439 but that did not hurt her from being a great mother. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.280 Mark had last seen Kendra and his brother a couple 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.440 weeks earlier at Thanksgiving dinner. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:59.000 We all were together and she cooked a mean Thanksgiving dinner. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.920 We all had a great time. Kender was happy, Thomas 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:10.680 was happy. But three weeks later, Boom Thomas had been shot. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:12.920 It sends shockwaves. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.640 Even more shocking was that Thomas's best friend, Tommy Row, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.040 had pulled the trigger. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.640 That was one thing I struggled with. You're sad, then 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.560 you're this, then you're angry. I went through all that 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.840 all day. It was terrible. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.000 Law enforcement was on the lookout for an armed and 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.400 dangerous Tommy Row. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.920 I basically Barrick hated myself in my house. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.960 Think about it. This was somebody they were all friends with. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.680 Mark was scared. He didn't know what Tommy would do 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.760 next or where. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.040 He was, and they went to go look for him. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.959 That had the whole slot team. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.040 Heather Jenkins was a local nine one one dispatcher. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.439 When Kendre Tally told the investigator who the shooter was, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.280 we notified the sheriff's department and they activated their SWAT 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:09.200 team because she had told the investigator that he was 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.960 kind of a conspiracy theorist and had cameras outside of 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:18.280 his home and blackout curtains and lots of guns and 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.320 just very kind of a scary guy. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.640 The police found the gold colored Chevy truck that Tommy 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.160 Row was driving parked outside of his home in Bugalusa. Covington, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.040 where the crime took place, has a low crime rate 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.040 compared to the national average. Meanwhile, Buggaloosa has one of 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.160 the highest crime rates in the country. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.760 He was at home and had evidently barricaded himself in 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.760 the home. That was afraid that it was going to 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.080 turn into a big standoff with this guy, and they 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.360 were out there for you know, a while at. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.960 The time, Tommy was thirty six years old and on 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.000 probation after being charged with cocaine possession. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.960 There was a real concern that he was not going. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:01.400 To give up. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.800 His sister apparently called him up and did the cops 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.880 or come up to carry you and you take care 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:09.440 of yourself. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.800 Jack Hofstat worked for the District Attorney's office. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.120 According to him, he put all the guns in a bed, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.439 loaded them up, and that he was even shoot it 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.640 out with him because he didn't want to die. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.920 You'd think if he didn't want to die, he would surrender, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.160 But Tommy wasn't your typical character. He was an avid 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.680 outdoorsman who liked to hunt and fish. He owned numerous weapons, 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.880 and the police weren't taking any chances. The tents stand 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.280 off with Tommy Row went on for nearly four hours 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.400 until one of the officers made a breakthrough. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.000 His job is to get somebody out of the house 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.760 without having to kill him, and he finally gets Tommy 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:54.520 on the telephone and Tommy tells him immediately without being asked, 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.120 that he had killed somebody. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.360 Tommy Row's guilty conscience got the best of him, Fest 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.000 to killing his friend Thomas Tally when the officer on 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.000 the other end heard this, he purposefully denied that Thomas 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.000 Tally was dead. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.360 He says, no, no, he didn't kill anybody, He just wounded. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.240 The officer hoped that by saying Thomas Tally was wounded 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.080 and not dead, that Tommy would peacefully surrender. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.080 He didn't tell him anything he could to get him 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.800 out of the house where at somebody else. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.440 Getting hurt, and thankfully it worked. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.479 He eventually came out and then they arrested. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.040 Him with Tommy Rowlan custody. Detective searched his house for evidence, 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.520 and the inside looked like a junkyard. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.360 They went up and got the guns and Kendra's cell phone, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.920 which had numerous phone calls from her husband trying to 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.040 find out where she was and when she was coming home, 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.840 and his notebook with a suicide note in it. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.720 Tommy really was planning on killing himself. He had penned 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.800 a suicide note in it. He speaks to his relationship 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:06.720 with Kendra. Here's one part of it. I also want 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.920 my mother to know that I love her with all 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.400 my heart and Kendra just as much or more. I 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.960 just hope Kendra can forgive me for what I have done. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.360 I also hope Kendra will always know how much I 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.960 love her and what she means to me. I just 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.240 can't sit around and watch her being hurt all the time. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:32.920 Love always, Tommy. Tommy Rawll confessed to two things, being 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.200 in love with his best friend's wife and killing him. 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.120 The Covington police charged him with murder. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.880 I still remember the vivid pictures of the camera crew 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.000 when they arrested him, putting him in the patrol car. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.960 It was all so shocking for Thomas's brother Mark. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:54.120 It's so rare to have a shooting murder, especially the 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.280 way it was done here on the north shore of 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.920 Lake Pont Train stuff like that's not supposed to happen here, 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.960 and that's what made unfortunately the biggest news, not my 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:11.040 brother dying, but that because no one gets killed here. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.120 As the police search Tommy Row's home, they uncovered evidence 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.479 which to them pointed to his long running obsession with Kendra. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:25.520 There was that strange suicide slash love note, along with pictures, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:30.240 including a family photo. But here's the strange part. The 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.639 photo was of Tommy with Kendra and Kendra's son. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.679 That seems to be a little off to me. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.399 Tommy Row often hung out with Thomas and Kendra. He 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.200 was a regular at many of the Tally's parties and barbecues, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.400 and his three children often played with the Tally son. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.360 All I know is he worked with Thomas installing car 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.080 stereos carl arms back in the day. I think he 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.560 worked at Pizza Hut, I think where him and Kendra met. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.560 In Mark's mind, Tommy Row was just one of the 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.320 many friends the couple had. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.480 He comes off as a pleasant person, but he only 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.480 will talk to you if you ask him a question. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.320 I'm not gonna be judgmental, but it just seemed a 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:19.720 little odd. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.879 Tommy's deadly obsession with Kendra appeared to be a slam 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:29.239 dunk for prosecutors. They had a confession and eyewitness and 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.200 plenty of incriminating physical evidence. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.960 He still cared about her, and almost in an overwhelming way. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.200 My gut feeling was saying, something's not right. I still 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.600 think he had a thing for Candor after Thomas got 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.120 married to her, and I think that always stopped. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.840 But the results of Thomas Talley's autopsy would throw a 0:18:52.920 --> 0:19:02.160 wrench in everything. Just before sunrise on December eleventh, two 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.040 thousand and four, Thomas Tally was gunned down in his 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.480 driveway in Covington, Louisiana. A few hours later, his killer, 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:14.280 Tommy Row, who had been his best friend, was in custody. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.360 Jack Hofstat worked for the District Attorney's office. 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:19.520 We have very few murders. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.119 Most murders that we have are what I call business disputes. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:28.720 One drug dealer killing another, or somebody's robbing a drug 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.960 dealer because they've got the money. And every once in 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.879 a while we have something like the Raal Tally case, 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:39.960 which it really doesn't fit in with the norm. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:44.480 In addition to murder, Tommy also faced a drug possession charge. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.200 Police had found crystal meth inside his truck. His case 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.119 appeared to be open and shut until the result of 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.320 Thomas Tally's autopsy came back. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.760 The pathologist, the medical examiner, is the one that decides 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.200 exactly what killed him. 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.600 That report stated that Thomas Tally was shot in the chest, hip, head, 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:13.399 and groin area a total of six times. But the 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.880 detective's job got a whole lot harder when the report 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:21.880 listed the origin of those six bullets two different tests. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.879 One was a RUGU nine milimeter, the other was a 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:27.119 LAMA forty five. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.600 Okay. The fact that the victim took bullets from two 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.600 different guns, well, that changed the entire investigation. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.719 Se We shot four times with the nine milimeter and 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.880 two with the forty five. The first shots to none 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:48.639 milimeter shots were shot in a downward pattern, but they 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.240 weren't close shots. They were at least thirty six inches apart. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.440 The last two shots were directly standing over and the ones. 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:57.040 Are the forty five. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.959 Okay, So here's what that means. Four bullets were fired 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:06.760 from inside Tommy's truck and two bullets from a different 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.960 gun were fired outside the truck. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:16.760 We had multiple gun shot wounds and two calibers. When 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:18.960 you have two calibers, you know you have two guns. 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.880 It was up to detectives to figure out who fired 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:26.880 the second gun. Was it someone else or did Tommy 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.879 fire both guns? Here's Detective Doug Arrowood. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.280 In reality, that's usually not the case unless you've got 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.520 the old Wild West one gun in each hand. People 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:43.840 are not at all comfortable with shooting on an everyday basis. 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:45.480 Very very few people up. 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.640 The only other person law enforcement knew of who had 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:52.320 been at the crime scene was Kendra. She had already 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.800 talked to the detectives right after witnessing her husband being 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.320 shot to death in the driveway of their home. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.359 She was definitely worse for work, so to speak. But 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:04.040 given the circumstances, you've got to say that's understandable in 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:07.920 a very traumatic time. Maybe there's something that she missed. 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:09.680 Maybe there's something she could tell us that would either 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:11.600 say yes I did it or no I didn't, and 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.399 here's why, and we'd say, you know what, you have 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:15.720 a point, you're good to go. So she agreed to 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.159 come in within attorney, I'm agree to talk to us. 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.720 Kendra held the key to what happened and had been 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:26.280 so helpful to the investigation. So the detective had Kendra 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.840 walk him through what happened that night one more time. 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.320 She was telling me about how she was abused by 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:35.960 her husband. 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:39.800 At the time, Kendra told the detective that her husband, Thomas, 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.440 had sexually assaulted her a few weeks earlier. On tape, 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.800 Kendra said, he forced himself on her and did some 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:50.200 things he had never done before. 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:51.960